It is crushingly disappointing to me how many of the comments here are about funerals. When the point of the article has nothing to do with funerals. The thesi

It is crushingly disappointing to me how many of the comments here are about funerals. When the point of the article has nothing to do with funerals. The thesis is this paragraph and I think it's quite striking and important > "Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour. The Shiva call for one of my ex's uncles. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.